What If?

Randall Munroe is the author of the popular webcomic xkcd and the science question-and-answer blog What If. Randall was born in Easton, Pennsylvania and grew up outside Richmond, Virginia. After studying physics at Christopher Newport University, he got a job building robots at NASA Langley Research Center. In 2006, he left NASA to draw comics on the internet full-time, supporting himself through the sale of xkcd t-shirts, prints, posters, and books. He likes candlelight dinners and long walks on the beach. Very long walks. Lots of people say they like long walks on the beach, but then they get out on the beach and after just an hour or two, they say they're getting tired. Bring a tent. He lives in Massachusetts.

出版者:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

作者:Randall Munroe

页数:321

出版时间:2014-9-2

价格:USD 24.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780544272644

图书标签:科普长知识英文原版2016

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From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask

Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have an enormous, dedicated following, as do his deeply researched answers to his fans’ strangest questions.

The queries he receives range from merely odd to downright diabolical:

• What if I took a swim in a spent-nuclear-fuel pool?

• Could you build a jetpack using downward-firing machine guns?

• What if a Richter 15 earthquake hit New York City?

• Are fire tornadoes possible?

His responses are masterpieces of clarity and wit, gleefully and accurately explaining everything from the relativistic effects of a baseball pitched at near the speed of light to the many horrible ways you could die while building a periodic table out of all the actual elements.

The book features new and never-before-answered questions, along with the most popular answers from the xkcd website. What If? is an informative feast for xkcd fans and anyone who loves to ponder the hypothetical.

读后感

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用户评价

还行吧，作者有点刻意卖弄的感觉

yay! 终于在 2015 来到之前读完了！

5月20日下的单，啃到前天才读完。不是特别吸引人，毕竟是科普没有剧情，但作者已经写得非常有趣，漫画的幽默总是让人会心一笑。英文版看不懂的地方有不少，很多词词典查不到，有些幽默的部分和提到人名地名的部分，由于文化差异很难有共鸣。选择回答的问题可能大多适合美国人脑洞大开的口味，我个人的话看完之后受到震撼留下印象的信息很少。感觉这本书对综合知识和数理基础深厚的或者科学从业者来说会更有启发和趣味。

yay! 终于在 2015 来到之前读完了！

yay! 终于在 2015 来到之前读完了！